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Dr Jan Bell

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Paediatric registrar in Australia

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23h
“She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor”. “Marris believed she had done her due diligence. She had researched raw milk…” Her baby ended up in the ICU with a life-threatening E. coli infection.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seems depressingly relevant again
The Chaser - Local woman convinced that misogyny is no longer a problem thanks to a man shouting "Not All Men" every time she talks
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 29/09/2026
"We hope women know we take their safety seriously. It's a top priority, just below protecting the reputation of ourselves and our male students." chaser.com.au/general-news...
Cornell to take rape allegations more seriously: introduces 'naughty corner' punishment - The Chaser
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every morning, the AI gods ask their AI genie to make the technology less resource hungry and expensive and less dependent on human trainers. And every morning the genie says no.
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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And don't be old!
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing is certain, if we complete this project and produce a book and exhibition, the Guardian will refuse to run the story. Before he died Martin Parr confirmed to me that their photo editor had blacklisted me saying “you are stuffed” when it comes to getting anything in that paper.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
White trans women, please knock this shit off.
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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 28/09/2026
It was one of the most difficult lessons I learned as a person trying to make the web better. White people who claim to be progressive will get *nasty* when they feel like their whiteness isn’t being centered.
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why does her husband look like somebody on a "Reasons For Vaginal Dryness" poster? .
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I saw a news story about AI leading to a rise in complaints since they're quicker and easier to write with AI. As someone who responds to complaints in my job, it doesn't bother me since we use AI to reply to them all anyway.
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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow what an absolute shitty racists, sexist headline and opener. And ..How to ostracise at least 30% of the population who are either migrants or are children of a migrant parent with that revolting phrase “social cohesion”
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 29/09/2026
"As I said to the help while they cleaned my mansion, we all need to be ready to make sacrifices,” said the RBA boss. chaser.com.au/general-news...
RBA tells working class people to stop wasting money on ‘luxuries’ like food, shelter and transport - The Chaser
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The fossil corps behind the #atlasnetwork have used up & made unelectable Howard’s fossil-fuelled Liberal Party. The Boomer Facebook news machine has been switched to an all-out effort to praise the stupid & normalise racism so they can seize power, crush clean energy, and do an orange 🇺🇸 f—-ism.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ASRC had TWO VANS STOLEN OVERNIGHT in Melbourne from our CATERING SOCIAL ENTERPRISE. We are all so distressed and angry. Who robs a charity! Here’s are the license plates of the two white vans 👇🏼 and photos of them too➡️➡️➡️ Call 000 if spot them please 🙏🏼 Renault 🚐 is 1UO2YV Peugeot van 🚐 is 1QR 8PO
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
"I installed the Give Away Your Personally Identifying Info app made by the We Love Stealing Your Personally Identifying Info Corp headed by Mr. Steal Your Personally Identifying Info and it gave away all my personally identifying info"
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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I hope someone does a study comparing how many men who attended a fraternity in university were convicted of rape, gang rape & sexual assault. versus non-fraternity university men, over say a 10 year period. It sure does seem to be a frequently repeating pattern over the decades #Culture
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us."
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Love to be 1/6th of the population and our concerns are totally ignored so they can appease racists
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Now THIS here is a thread 👇👇👇
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/09/2026
"Which social groups are harmed? What natural resources are consumed? Who makes profit?" If you're not asking this in discussions about technology then the answer to what will happen is predictable (see above): unhinged misogyny, eugenics — supposedly all the things you were trying to depart from.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
While Bibi Netanyahu lies and divides at the UN, Mayor Mamdani is planting trees with Gazan refugees at Gracie Mansion. The contrast couldn’t be more stark.
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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hope future generations judge us all for empowering Mark Zuckerberg, the man who only ever had one good idea which was born out of his desire to rank the hotness of women who would never look at him. He really is not the symbol of our times that we want, but he is the one we deserve.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 24/09/2026
G’morning, friends. It's Fat Bear Week!! 🐻 A entire week dedicated to some of the chunkiest bears around. Sometimes, life is just good. 🤎
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Meet The Bears of Fat Bear Week - Explore.org
Explore.org is the world's leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel. Our mission is to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the soul of humanity and inspire lifelong learning. Watch nature unfold live right now!
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why would you trust an industry founded on theft to self-regulate?
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Archaeologists in Paris have uncovered what they think is ancient Lutetia, a Celtic oppidum mentioned in Caesar's Gallic Wars that had never been found. 🧪🏺
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Missing Celtic fort annihilated by Julius Caesar finally found under Paris hospital
Archaeologists in Paris have discovered the remains of a missing Celtic fort sacked by Julius Caesar in 52 B.C.
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Henry Bones @henrybones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's plenty of research funding, too
Part of a Wikipedia entry about the division of labor in Busytown. Predators have the good jobs, pigs are explloited
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"It's now left to the tech industry to police itself" is not the punchline I want to read about #AI.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Did you know Australia uses the exact same private immigration detention operator as Trumps US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Management and Training Corporation (MTC). MTC won a $2.3 billion contract to manage Australia’s onshore immigration detention network
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is the outcome of the “you do you” approach to public health that so many people favor
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Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My heart breaks for the families and loved ones grieving after four family & domestic violence-related deaths in NSW over the weekend, including the death of a child. There is no shortage of evidence on what works to halt this. There is a shortage of government action.
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Homeless young women in Victoria are being forced into 'survival sex' - essentially prostitution - because our youth housing services and mental health system keep failing them. We urgently need dedicated investment in youth homelessness services, especially for those fleeing family violence.
theage.com.au
‘Survival sex’: The dire choice for girls made homeless by family violence
Girls and young women fleeing violent homes are finding themselves with so few housing and mental health support options they are forced to resort to “survival sex”, agencies say. But there is a solut...
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026
There is no market for a paper-reading chatbot embedded with every scholarly article, much less a paper-reading chatbot that needs a disclaimer about how it does not in fact always read the paper correctly
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026
Okay this jogged loose something I've had half-written for a while now: Despite decades of effort, scientists have still not found a substitute for reading the paper denimandtweed.jbyoder.org/2026/09/desp...
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Despite decades of effort, scientists have still not found a substitute for reading the paper
Science is difficult, but not for the reason you think. It’s not that conceiving a research program is difficult. It’s not that planning and performing an experiment or observational st…
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 17/09/2026
Ed Sheeran welcomes new opening act: Beatboxing Netanyahu
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Ed Sheeran welcomes new opening act: Beatboxing Netanyahu
LONDON — At a press conference today, singer Ed Sheeran announced that, despite all of his previously scheduled opening acts quitting over his firing Macklemore, his tour will continue as scheduled, w...
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Jewish Viewer: (crying) During your speech, you made many Nazi comparisons directed at Jews. This is extremely hurtful. It is deeply degrading to people who truly suffered under the Nazi regime. Norman Finkelstein responds: — I no longer respect this attitude. I truly don't. I don't like
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ms. Rachel kicks ass. A way better celebrity than Ed Sheeran.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s not perfect but Ireland raised a lot of people in a society that has a social safety net BECAUSE the people are about that action. And multiple years of lawyers who are used to putting in clauses that protect their asses around protest
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Of all the remakes, "racist Passport to Pimlico" was not on my bingo card www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Why is Piddington in Oxfordshire holding a referendum on leaving the UK?
Residents of Piddington, near Bicester, will vote in a symbolic referendum on Tuesday.
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Gordon Skramzy @gordonskramzy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It rocks that every news article anymore is like "this deranged Marxist leftist anarchist wants your kids to be Palestinian terrorists" and then it's accompanied by this picture.
Ms Rachel
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Thinking of/with antiwar activist A. J. Muste:
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Once a reporter asked him, "Do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night in front of the White House with a candle?" A.J. Muste replied softly: "Oh I don't do this to change the country. I do this so the country won't change me.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors
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pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#OnThisDay in London's anti-fascist history, 1962: Fascist followers of Oswald Mosley got beat in running battles with Hackney Young Socialist supporters & others around Ridley Rd., Dalston. Fash meeting places were blockaded. Good account of this era hackneyhistory.wordpress.com/2020/09/27/t...
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The 62 Group fought fascists in Hackney – now in a BBC drama
At an early 62 Group encounter outside Hackney town hall, Maurice charged at a huge fascist bruiser and smashed him to the ground. He then grabbed his jacket with such force that the lapels came aw…
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
All day Piddington's womminfolk have been telling news how they will be terrified of "hundreds of young men nearby, free to come and go as they please." NOT ONE JOURNALIST has asked: "How did you cope when it was an army base? Who came and went then? Nuns?" Soon as you ask that, all becomes clear.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And we already know the study’s results were falsified, that those playing guards were instructed to brutalize ti get that result, & when a similar study was taken without that manipulation, those in the guard role were kind. But refutations never circulate as far as convenient false findings. 😔
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